Design Heroix Series: Laura Kurgan and Stephen Zacks
Wednesday, 02/20/2008, 12:00–2:00pm
Join us for the second event of the monthly Design Heroix series.
Laura Kurgan, Faculty, Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Respondent: Stephen Zacks, Associate Editor, Metropolis Magazine
Laura Kurgan teaches architecture at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where she is Director of Visual Studies and the Director of the Spatial Information Design Lab (SIDL). SIDL is currently collaborating with the Justice Mapping Center on a project called "Graphical Innovations in Justice Mapping" in selected states -- Arizona, Kansas, Los Angeles County, Louisiana, New York, and Rhode Island. She has followed the declassification of satellite imagery and GPS technology in a series of research projects across the significant political events of the last decade. This work, which has been exhibited internationally, is collected in You Are Here: Post-Military Technology and the New Landscape of Satellite Images, forthcoming from Zone Books.
Stephen Zacks is an editor at Metropolis Magazine and a graduate of Liberal Studies at the New School’s Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science. He has reported on architecture, design, and urbanism in Abuja, Ramallah, Beirut, Panama City, Vilnius, Bucharest, Belgrade, Sarajevo, Pristina, Nicosia, and Dubai, as well as Baltimore, Omaha, Oklahoma City, Nashville, Denver, and Kansas City.
Design Heroix:
The speakers in this grand rounds series treat design as the critical opportunity to address one or several challenging contemporary technical issues. While working in different material realms their entrepreneurial activity draws designability into realms that have been closed to reimagination—thought solved or inevitable. These speakers have individually reinvented the laptop, the window, the map, fundamental electrical connections, the structure of competitive markets and other devices that previously seemed so complete and unchangeable. In so doing, they explore the opportunities for social change that technical changes present, change the scope of design and our chance at significantly redesigning our urban environmental future.
Next month: Wednesday, March 19th 12:00-2:00pm
The series will conclude in June 2008 with a “Redesigning Design” panel intended to address the changing terms of design.
Podcasts of past presentations as well as opportunities for extended discussion around topics addressed during and related to the series will be available online at: http://www.environmentalhealthclinic.net/category/news/blogs/designheroix/
Organized by: Center for Architecture; NYU; Buckminster Fuller Institute
Sponsored by: Co-sponsored by: Center for Architecture; Environmental Health Center Center for Architecture; Environmental Health Clinic, NYU; Buckminster Fuller Institute
Location: Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place (Directions)
Price: Free
CES LUs: 1.5, CES HSW: 1.5
Telephone: 212.358.6121
More Info: http://www.environmentalhealthclinic.net/designheroix
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